Here is a bag that was gifted to me a couple of weeks ago and that I, surprisingly, have been wearing ever since.
It’s small (you can’t fit your iPad in it), light, you can kill someone with the steel corners, but most of all it’s super minimalistically chic. Thought I’d tell you about it.

It’s beautiful but, aaaack, doesn’t it make you nervous to go out with so little *stuff*? I’m a total big bag junkie, and it’s always heavy and filled, so while my back and shoulders would love me to switch to something more like this, I just can’t imagine it actually being functional! Don’t you miss carrying everything with you? Or were you never a camel like me?

With smartphones replacing my camera, agenda, and address book, I find I can get away with carrying a lot less and don’t carry a big bag as much as I used to. This one is so sleek and modern, yet it has a timeless quality to it. Love it. Who is it by? Nice present!

Cool bag. Howver, after reading the NYT article about what happened to Loeffler Randall, I’m really reluctant to buy anything from them anymore. Basically, Loeffler and Randall got screwed over by a big company. They’re not anymore in anyway able to be involved in their company or use their names for designs. Ugly stuff.

Garance!
At the risk of sounding like a pain in the ass—
“gifted” is not really a word! It has become part of the commonly used vernacular speech, but it is more correct to say, for example,” Here is the bag that was given to me a couple of weeks ago…”
Merci!

I noticed that the larger the bag, the bigger the number of things I “have” to carry with me…and the heavier the bag gets…
I hate big bags.
They weigh me down, and they even change the way I walk. So uncool.
More often than not, you see people on the streets completely worn by their own huge bags, who struggle to find the phone when it rings, who carry everything except the one most important thing.
As someone mentioned above, smartphones provide a phone, ipod, city map, agenda and the book-for-the-metro all in one, without eating up space .
A pair of keys, an aspirin, a lipstick, my ID and cards fit into the smallest volume.
Everything can be found in a snap.
The bag stays neat and clean inside. On the outside, it keeps it shape.
Most importantly, you can’t beat the feeling of freedom and “legerté” that a small bag gives!